The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-28
BRIGHT BITS.

ALWAYS prepared for death-the undertaken.
Life.
CAPT. MUTT, who was so prompt in pursuing
the revolted Apaches of Arizona probably has
the elements of kernel in him.-Ltfe.
A YOUNG COUPLE. who proposed visiting the
summit of Mount Washington registered at the
Glen House as Two for ascent. boston Com
n,ercioL Bulletin.
''WHY do not women get bald?" asks an ex-
change. 1t seems to us that any one ought to
be able to answer that. It's because they don't
have wives.-Yonkers Statesman.
If some of the men who have been talking
about those Southern battle flags are not mis-
must have been a great deal of very wild shoot
ing during the war.-Chfcdgo Netrs.
''WHY so silent, George?'' she asked.
81 Just saw a shooting star and didn't want to
speak until wished something, -" he said
You're just as mean as you can be! Why
did you not tell me and then we could both have
wished together.-Judge.
COL H., of Virginia, had an old negro known
as Uncle Ned, who, upon being urged to finish
bit of blowing before shutdown, said: "Glopg;
watts de use er hurryin' so? Oars ernudder
day ter-morrow dat amt eben been teched yit?''
--Hnrper's Magazine for July
On THE AvENUE.-A father and daughter out
walking, when two young gentlemen pass and
bow.
Father-Who are those gentlemens
Daughter-George and Charlie, pa. Isn't
George just too goodlooking?
Father-Sly mink! You love Charlie-ToUn
Topics.
BEFORE spanking wholesale breeze
The yacht glides Ger the sunlit seas;
The skipper, silent, grim,
Walks to and fro upon the deck
Until he sees a shining speck
Upon the horizons brim.
Bring up q glass; y the skipper cries,
The ships boy to the cabin flies,
The locker searches through,
Then lightly to the deck he springs,
And to the waiting skipper brings
glass and bottle, too,
~ Boston Courier
LAST NIGHT two more passengers embarked in
the ship of marriage and, under circumstances
and surroundings OF the most suspicious and
favorable nature, commenced their long voyage
on the sea of matrlmony. In the days of child
hood a courtship was begun which last night
terminated in the wedding. United were these
young hearts with the silken, yet adamantine
bond they had so earnestly sought for. And as
if to shed lustre upon the scene and gild the oc.
casion with the radiance of the nineteenth cen
fury, the electric lights, one of which is near
the residence of the bride, burst forth in all
their glittering beauty and shed all around the
splendor Of the tabled fairyland.-Port Jeruts
Gazette.
THE more uneducated negroes show a strange
inability to understand what the simplest pic
lures even are intended to represent, and their
strangely ludicrous In the family of Mr.. S,
was negro servant named Aunt Lucy. One
day Miss Florence showed her a small picture
of Niagara Falls, and asked her what she
thought it was. After holding the picture in
every possible position Aunt Lucy finally said:
dat sure am Miss Eva; it sure am" Miss Eva
was another daughter of the family. rs it a
good picture of herr" asked Miss Florence. Re
garding the picture with sage air Aunt Lucy
replied: II tink it favor Miss Eva JUS a bit. ~
Harper's Magazine for july.